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RAYNES PARK VALE  23|24                                                                                                                              UP THE VALE






       MATCH                                     Date  SAT 30TH SEPT 2023                  Within one minute of the restart   On 77 mins Badshot’s Nas   simply stopped playing football
                                                                                                                                            and contented themselves with
                                                                                                                    Regragrui latched onto a long
                                                                                           a well taken curling effort from
       REPORT                                    Kick off  15:00  Attendance 181           nestled into the back of the   Billy Bishop and slotted home   line. In reality, they were doing
                                                                                                                    ball from Billy Oram, ran past
                                                                                           Badshot’s Baback Dehghani
                                                                                                                                            passing the ball along their back
                                                                                           Raynes Park goal and with it went
                                                                                                                    to put the score at 1-4 and even
                                                                                                                                            Raynes Park a favour.
                                                                                           the belief that the home team
                                                                                                                    then Vale’s day wasn’t over. An
                                                 Competition
                                                                                           points. Instead Vale imploded.
                                                                                                                    saved by Badshot’s Cawdron
                                                       SOUTH-CENTRAL                       would return to snatch three   80th minute penalty for Vale was
                                                                                                                    and, Brad Sweeney’s attempts
       RAYNES PARK VALE    1   BADSHOT LEA    4                                            A straight red for dissent saw
                                                                                                                    to wrest the ball from the keeper
                                                                                           Louie Downey heading for an
                                                                                                                    was enough, in the referee’s
       Raynes Park Vale came to this   blocked to the momentary relief   narrative was about continue.   early shower in the 51st minute
                                                                                                                    eyes, to warrant a second yellow.
       fixture with justifiable optimism.   of the home fans only for Kai   A disallowed Vale goal on 22   and five minutes later the visitors
       Failures to launch in the FA Cup,   Allsopp to blast the resulting   minutes raised the spirits further   notched up another decent goal,   With minutes to go, Vale now
       The Velocity Cup and the FA   loose-ball into Billy Bishop’s   but, in all honesty, this was   this time from Anuar Ceesay,   down to nine men and Callum
       Trophy  had not deterred Josh   goal. So far this could have been   probably the last time the men   in the top right corner. Vale 1 –   McAllister running himself into
       Gallagher’s team from going   a familiar tale of Vale letting   in blue looked like they would   Badshot 3.  the ground such was his efforts
       stratospheric with 5 from 5 in   opponents go ahead, only for   reset the balance between these              to defend playing against the
       the Isthmian South Central,   the South Londoners to come   two teams. The Badshot front                     two-man advantage, Badshot
       including some coming-from-  storming back and when, nine   three repeatedly out-paced
       behind demolitions that had   minutes later, an excellent Harry   Vale’s midfield and defence and
       fans clamouring for more. Last   Cawdron save saw the ball go   although both teams went in
       season’s spectacular display saw   behind for a corner that was duly  at half-time level it was visiting
       Vale turn over almost all of their   converted by Jerry Nnamani with  fans who had most reason to be
       CCL opponents in their march   a bullet header to put Raynes   optimistic.
       to the title. But ‘almost’ wasn’t all.   Park level it all seemed as if this
       Of the CCL clubs that Raynes
       Park couldn’t break down were
       the team that they beat into 2nd
       place last season and the team
       that they faced at Grand Drive on
       this mild Saturday afternoon.
       Spirits were high in the stands
       where there was a belief that RPV
       would be able to end the bad run
       against this bogey team. It was a
       belief that was short-lived.
       In the ninth minute a shot from
       Badshot’s Lamin Ceesay was




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